Hot FREEBIES/MONEY MAKERS at Safeway stores (Randalls, Tom Thumb)

I LOVE Randall's the day the ad breaks!  It is so much fun walking the aisles to see what they are going to pay me to buy, lol.

With coupons, my loadables lists and my ad in hand, I had a ball today picking up some goodies.  First, I hit the card aisle because occassionally they have in store coupons that make for great deals.  I didn't find any coupons, but I did find this banner advertising a $5 oynso catalina for purchasing 3 cards (excludes .99 card in fine print).  I dug through all the cards and found some halloween cards for $1.49 YAY!

 Next, on to the grocery stuff.  My first course of action everytime I step foot into Randalls is to hit the clearance rack!  I always head there to see what goodies might be hiding.  With loadables and paper coupons, this can be a gold mine.  Today I only found one item that fit into my plan, the cake mix.  Here is what I did :

1 Nature Valley granola bar $2.49 - .70 in ad coupon - 2 .50 cellfire - .50 shortcuts - .50 IP = -.71
1 Nature Valley thins $2.49 - 2 .50 cellfire - .50 shortcuts - .50 IP = -.01
1 Juicy Juice $1.99 - $1.10 ecoupon(I think from randalls.com) = .89
3 Hallmark cards $1.49 each = $4.47
1 Betty Crocker frosting $1.50 - .50 cellfire for it and cake - .75 insert 8-8 GM = .25
1 Betty Crocker cake mix $.99 - .10 in ad coupon - .50 50% sticker = .39 (I was expecting more loadables)

There is a buy 4 save $4 promo on the front page of the ad.  It includes the Progresso soup, BC potatoes, Hamburger Helper and BC brownie mixes. I did the soup and potatoes because it was the best combo for my loadables

2 Progresso soup $1.99 each - $1 each for promo - 2 .50 cellfire - .50 shortcuts - .50/2 insert 8-8GM = -.52
2 BC potatoes $1.69 each - $1 each for promo - 2 .50 cellfire - 2 .50 shortcuts - .50/2 IP = -$1.62

2 Precious* mozzarella cheese stringers $4.99 each - $2.50 each for in ad coupon - $1/2 booklet coupon = $3.98

Tax : .27
I used a $5 from the SB deal to pay
Cost oop:  $2.39 and earned a $5 oynso for the Hallmark cards.
I will also mail in the $5 for the Precious cheese for a profit of ~ $2 after cost of stamp!  This was a peelie on the package.

And now for the giveaway!  I have spare rebate forms (only need 1 for each 2 purchased) Limit on rebate is 5 PER HOUSEHOLD!!!!  One entry per reader.  You have to tell me a funny story for this giveaway.  Make me laugh.  I don't know how many winners I will pick, but I will close the giveaway no later than Friday to give you time to purchase the cheeses needed for the rebate.

GO!

*I included the booklet in the picture I found near frozen pizza.  Inside is a coupon for Precious cheese and I used that to make the Precious cheese a money maker AFTER rebate, YAY!